📱 eBook en inglés WHISKEY WHEN WE'RE DRY

Shortlisted for the Historical Writers Association Gold Crown

A gritty and lyrical American epic about a young woman who disguises herself as a boy and heads West.

In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her familys homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbours, she cuts her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her gun-slinging fugitive brother Noah and bring him home.

A talented sharpshooter herself, Jesss quest lands her in the employ of the territorys violent, capricious governor, whose militia is also hunting Noah - dead or alive. Wrestling with her brothers outlaw identity, and haunted by questions of her own, Jess must outmanoeuvre those who underestimate her, ultimately rising to become a hero in her own right.

Told in Jesss wholly original and unforgettable voice, the story brims with page-turning Western action, but its approach is modern and nuanced, touching on powerful issues from gender and sexuality to family and identity.

In the sweeping storytelling tradition of Larry McMurtrys Lonesome Dove and Charles Fraziers Cold Mountain, Whiskey When Were Dry transcends the straight-and-narrow Western to land among the classics.